Understanding uncertainty / / Dennis V. Lindley, Minehead, Somerset, England

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910140190803321
• Autore: Lindley D. V (Dennis Victor), <1923->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-118-65015-8; 1-118-65011-5; 1-118-65023-9
• Edizione: [Revised edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 v.) : ill
• Collana: Wiley series in probability and statistics
• Disciplina: 519.2
• Soggetti: Probabilities; Uncertainty - Mathematics; Decision making - Mathematics; Mathematical statistics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes indexes.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Praise for the First Edition "...a reference for everyone who is interested in knowing and handling uncertainty." —Journal of Applied Statistics The critically acclaimed First Edition of Understanding Uncertainty provided a study of uncertainty addressed to scholars in all fields, showing that uncertainty could be measured by probability, and that probability obeyed three basic rules that enabled uncertainty to be handled sensibly in everyday life. These ideas were extended to embrace the scientific method and to show how decisions, containing an uncertain element, could be rationally made. Featuring new material, the Revised Edition remains the go-to guide for uncertainty and decision making, providing further applications at an accessible level including: A critical study of transitivity, a basic concept in probability A discussion of how the failure of the financial sector to use the proper approach to uncertainty may have contributed to the recent recession A consideration of betting, showing that a bookmaker's odds are not expressions of probability Applications of the book's thesis to statistics ; A demonstration that some techniques currently popular in statistics, like significance tests, may be unsound, even seriously misleading, because they violate the rules of probability Understanding Uncertainty, Revised Edition is ideal for students studying probability or statistics and for anyone interested in one of the most fascinating and vibrant fields of study in contemporary science and mathematics.

Vermont fiscal year ... annual report [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910696387603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Montpelier, VT, : USDA Rural Development
• Descrizione fisica: volumes : digital, PDF file
• Soggetti: Rural development projects - Vermont
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Periodico
• Note generali: Description based on 2001; title from title screen (viewed Dec. 20, 2007).

Environment : why read the classics / / edited by Sofia Guedes Vaz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910953908103321
• Autore: Vaz Sofia
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, : Greenleaf Pub., 2012; London : , : Routledge, , 2017
• ISBN: 1-351-27766-9; 1-351-27767-7; 1-351-27768-5; 1-907643-53-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (186 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): VazSofia Guedes
• Disciplina: 333.7
• Soggetti: Environmentalism - History - 20th century; Nature - Effect of human beings on - History - 20th century; Environmental literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published 2013 by Greenleaf Publishing Limited.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Walden; 2. A Sand County Almanac; 3. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring; 4. The Limits to Growth revisited; 5. Small is still beautiful; 6. An essay on Our Common Future; Notes; Contributors; Index; Back cover
• Sommario/riassunto: "Environment: Why Read the Classics? presents six important essays by some of the world's leading environmental thinkers on six of the most emblematic books ever written on the environment. The books--Walden; A Sand County Almanac; Small is Beautiful; Silent Spring; The Limits to Growth; and Our Common Future--taken together have been hugely important in the development of global environmental awareness, activism and policy. The essayists--Viriato Soromenho-Marques, J. Baird Callicott, José Lima Santos, Tim O'Riordan, Satish Kumar and Marina Silva--invite readers to reflect on these ground-breaking works and examine their historical importance, as well as what they should mean to us today and what relevance they will have to future generations. More than just books about the environment, these are also philosophical treatises, in that they increase our understanding ; of the natural world and of ourselves, calling us "to weigh and consider", as Bacon put it. In particular, they make us reflect on the need to constantly redefine the purposes of progress, the economy and society. How we relate to nature is a crucial aspect in the plans we make as a species, and as individuals; and every one of these books inspires a more respectful relationship, both with nature and humanity, and consequently with ourselves. The six essays in this book are the result of a series of conferences organised in Lisbon by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation with the support of the American Embassy in Portugal. Its raison d'etre was to revisit the ideas that have shaped the environmental movement, seeking inspiration to deal with what looks like a very challenging future. The significance of such timeless concepts is now more apparent than ever; and these evergreen books are full of ideas that retain their spark even in our difficult times. This is what makes them classics. Environment: Why Read the Classics? is a provocative book and will be essential reading for all those concerned about the state of the world."--Provided by publisher.